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SUMMARY:Mikołaj Łoziński: Some things should stay within the family
UID:https://instytutpolski.pl/leipzig/2025/05/07/mikolaj-lozinski-some-things-should-stay-within-the-family/
LOCATION:Zoom & Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Goldschmidtstr. 28, 04103 Leipzig
DTSTAMP:20260507T171500
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DESCRIPTION:The talk is part of the research colloquium “Passing Through Hands:
Objects in Jewish Everyday Lives” in cooperation with the IRTG
“Belongings”
This research colloquium examines how everyday objects shape, mediate, and
preserve Jewish lived experience across time, space, and generations. It
approaches material culture as a site where history, memory, affect, and
identity intersect, focusing on ordinary domestic, personal, inherited, and
mobile objects as carriers of layered histories.
Speakers explore how everyday objects contain multiple histories and how
the »everyday« is produced through material practices. Central is the
entanglement of subjects and objects: how things shape human experience and
enable individual and collective, transgenerational forms of attachment and
memory.
Drawing on Jewish Studies, Material Culture Studies, Anthropology, History,
Memory Studies, and curatorial and literary perspectives, the lectures
highlight objects as active participants in social life. Special attention
is given to materiality’s affective qualities, the way how objects evoke
longing, loss, comfort, belonging, and ambivalence, as well as to the
temporalities and spaces objects create, particularly in contexts of
migration, displacement, and diaspora.
By foregrounding the everyday, the colloquium expands approaches to Jewish
history beyond textual and institutional frameworks, emphasizing ordinary
objects as archives of lived experience. Organized by the Dubnow Institute,
Leipzig University, and the International Research Training Group
»Belongings,« the series invites scholars, students, and the public to
reconsider how Jewish life is remembered and imagined through material
worlds.
Colloquium programme:
Time: Thursdays, 5.15 to 6.45 p.m.Venue: Leipzig/digital
7 May 2026Dubnow Institute/StreamMikołaj Łoziński “Some things should
stay within the family”A conversation about the book Książka (2011)
21 May 2026Dubnow Institute/StreamRobert Mueller-StahlCapturing Life.
German-Jewish Private Photography in the 1930s
4 June 2026Dubnow Institute/StreamSara Soussan in conversation with Alina
GromovaThe Everyday in a Vitrine. Curating the unfolding Present in German
Jewish Museums
11 June 2026digitalTalia Tokatly Blood Butterfly Formation. Epigenetic
Objects, the Migration of Things from their Original Places and their
Metamorphosis in the Work of Talia Tokatly
2 July 2026Dubnow Institute/StreamAnna ShternshisLard on Challah. Soviet
Jewish Food Practices in the 1920s – 1950s
 
Participation:Four of the five events will take place in person at the
Dubnow Institute and will also be streamed via Zoom. One lecture will be
held exclusively online. To participate in-person, registration is
required using this form: REGISTRATION
If you would like to participate digitally, You can find the access link on
the Dubnow-Institut webpage a few days before the event. Registration is
not required.
Veranstalter: Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur –
Simon Dubnow e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Polnischen Institut Berlin –
Filiale Leipzig
Colloquium programme (PDF)Info:
dubnow.de/en/event/passing-through-hands-objects-in-jewish-everyday-lives,
znak.com.pl Entrance: freeLocation: Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Goldschmidtstr.
28, 04103 Leipzig
 
Foto: Mikołaj Łoziński © Rafał Komorowski (Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 4.0)
 
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